July 24, 2007

6 comments:

aaron carroll said...

I think these toys made it to the US as" Micronauts". Its horrible because I'm so old I owned a bunch of em'

the fourth samba said...

The beginning made me think of cartoons I used to watch in Brazil (huge Japanese population in São Paulo), but toward the end I realized I had never seen it.
Who knew these guys would've turned into hip hop and some sort of electronicaesque peoples.

Aaron Wexler said...

That kid thinks he's all that.

jay said...

micronauts were great but ufortunately flimsily made. i lost all the little white hands and feet pretty quickly. Autechre has a song called Acroyear 2 named after a micronaut villain.

aaron carroll said...

My favorites were the gold dude on roller skates, the grey time traveler that came with a sarcophagus and the all clear time traveler.

jay said...

I asked for acroyear 2 every year for xmas from about age 4 to 8. i think it was probably discontinued around then and my poor mom tried unsuccessfully to find it year after year until i finally stopped believing in santa claus. it sort of became a running joke in my family after that.